Tag: Eric Hoffer

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

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Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.

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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

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Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

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Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.

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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

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The fear of becoming a ‘has-been’ keeps some people from becoming anything.

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The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

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The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

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